Dr. Errapotu is an assistant professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research background is in computer security and applied cryptography, trust modeling and metrics, differentially private data analysis, and security & privacy preserving protocol design for cognitive radio networks and cyber-physical systems. Inspite of having rapid advances in technologies, many of the traditional ways of securing IT and networks just don’t easily apply to the newer generation distributed networks. It is critical to carefully handle sensitive information-both confidential and untrusted; confidential information must not be inappropriately released, and the use of untrusted information must not corrupt trusted computation and the utility. Dr Errapotu has aligned her research focus to design tools for systems that handle sensitive information, by considering application-specific requirements and efficiently enforcing those requirements. She has been working on information security and privacy issues in wireless networks, cloud and fog computing, smart grids, distributed optimization, big data analytics, and Internet of Things (IOT) that provide scalability and practical implementation guarantees.